Steal My Girl by One Direction

One Directions new video for Steal My Girl has only been up for three days, and you kids have already given it over 10 million views at the time of this blog. Wow. The song was released about a month ago and was a hit. But why are we watching the music video instead of just listening to it on repeat until our ears fall off? Because it actually pretty fantastic. Which we were totally surprised by coming out of the boy band 1D.

You deserve it One Direction, you deserve it.

The music video is about a One Direction making a music video, or, "music videoception." It starts out pretty generic, band steps out, asks some blah blah questions, whatever. But then in comes one of the best cameos since Mumford and Sons Hopeless Wonderer, Danny Devito. And Danny wants only one thing in this music video, and that thing is balls.

One direction says this man is the greatest director of all time.

In jumps in sumo wrestlers, Niall with some less than PC dancers, and some epic ball smashing *cringe.* Outside of them standing on top of a rock in the middle of the desert, its a pretty unique music video. They even borrowed a monkey with an uncanny resemblance to Devito.

We're not the only ones who see this, right??

While we don't think the scenes are all that impressive, (end scene with enire cast dancing? Is that even possible?) what's included in the scenes are what we love. The shot of that dude throwing paint on the sumo wrestler will live on in infamy. But lets not forget the real star of the music video. Anonymous hula hooping man on rock.

You da real MVP.

After watching it, we think this is a good music video for a good song. Its catchy, its different, but it could stray away from the generic pop video format a little bit more. We give it 8 Danny Devitos out of 10.

This Is How We Do by Katy Perry

It's Katy Perry's birthday, so what better time to do a KP blog than now. Currently sitting in 16th on Top 40 is Katy Perry's "This Is How We Do." Now, this blog was already going to be pretty biased because we already love Katy Perry, but her newest music video is the frickin' bees knees. But why? Why is this such a great video? Well let us learn you some knowledge here, son.

That. That is what this music video is. 

This music video is a mix of pop culture, nostalgia, and food. Three of our favorite things. Its artistic and different in all the right ways. And not weird college art either, we're talking classy Piet Mondrian all up in here. The real deal, yo. Its one giant green screen of goodness. Its an outstanding music video already, but want to know what really puts it over the top. Why it'll be walking the halls of the Mount Olympus of music videos? This guy.

This is the single greatest I have ever seen. 

Katy Perry is joined by a variety of extras. It has airborne hipsters, a drag queen Mariah Carey, and dancing frozen desserts. The dancers aren't just normal dancers either. They dressed up to reflect the time period or motif and play a part in the video. There's even dancing Pee Wee Hermans. What else could you possibly want in life? There isn't anything. That's the answer to the question. We think this music video may literally be the best thing since sliced bread.

If sliced bread can save this iguana's relationship you know its good. 

"This Is How We Do" sets itself apart from most other pop videos in that it's actually creative. Its one of those things that look random, but has serious planning behind, flipping between decades, art, and pop references. And it has pizza (aka the best food ever made by anyone ever) and an inebriated  watermelon. IT HAS EVERYTHING.

YES WE KNOW CAPS LOCK IS ON

We're glad that this music video has officially started killing it on YouTube. At over 130 million at the time of this post, we hope it only does better. We give "This Is How We Do" a 10 twerking snow cones out of 10.

It Girl by Pharrell

At 3,000,000 It Girl may not be one of Pharrell’s greatest hits. Listening to it, it classic Pharrell. It’s entirely in falsetto, got a catchy beat, and he constantly repeats the exact same thing over and over and over and over again.  Sounds like should be a hit. However, the music video is a tad bit.... off. 

If your wondering if those girls are riding a whale, they are.

We're not quite sure where this new angle came from, but it definitely strays away from "classic Pharrell." Maybe he recently joined anime club, or maybe he's trying to tap into that massive weeaboo market. What is clear is it seems like this video was a conceived after marathoning One Piece on acid and going, "Eh, sure, I guess we can try that out."

Yeeeeeehhh, lets put this video back where it came from.

The story of this video is also kinda really strange. Pharrell, while out skateboarding one day in his side-scrolling Sega video game, comes across some girls playing on the beach .He then proceeds to, um, just kinda stare at them? (please refer to fig. 1) At which point, he decides to flirt with the 12 year old of the group. I think. After catching her alone on a beach in the middle of the night, he runs over to her, pulls a star out of his hat and throws it at her.

So that's what he keeps under his hat.

But the video doesn't stop the train there. No. Pharrell was like, let's just keep on goin' until nobody knows what's going on anymore. His magic hat star thing brings the girls friends over (who are like ghosts or something?) and opens a in-game store. He buys a flying dolphin plane and they ride around shooting sushi until an omnipresent techno Pharrell shows up and dance the music video away. But not before our heros lands next to a Mount Rushmore with Pharrell's and a puppies head on it.

It's what the America's greatest presidents would've wanted. 

With that being said, it is truly a unique music video that you won't forget any time soon, or ever. It bright enough to induce seizures and active enough to make sure you never quite know what's going on. We give this music video a 4 out of 10 dancing Pharrells.

Dem moves yo.